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Word: sunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunk three subs, a patrol boat and (with planes from another carrier) sunk four aircraft carriers and three destroyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - The Navy's Old Lady | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...Five U-boats are known to have been sunk within ten days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WAR OF NERVES: The Proper Moment | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...tilted suddenly. For a moment the sharp bow pointed a long finger toward the sky, then vanished. One of Hitler's Atlantic Fleet had sunk at 12:37 p.m., little more than an hour after she surfaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Scratch One Hearse! | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

Allied shipping tonnage losses during May dropped to the lowest figure for any one month since 1940. Even German communiqués reported a total of only 372,000 tons. German U-boat losses rose to the highest figure since the start of the war: nine sunk, four probably sunk, two possibly sunk - not including those destroyed at bases and assembly plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Best Month | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...Trans-Ocean Agency: "There are simply not enough ships [left] to be sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Best Month | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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